Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for October 15, 2021

The year is 1893. Rosie Weston, fireman, is working on an overnight passenger train to the World’s Fair. Her routine shift has turned into a nightmare, beginning with a peculiar trunk in the baggage car. Worse, a passenger has gone missing. Can Rosie discover the truth behind the cargo before more passengers go missing?

Strange Happenings is a series of short stories set in an alternate timeline, where science and the unknown mix. Much like a penny dreadful, each story is meant to be enjoyed in a single sitting.

Something Happened on the Way to the World’s Fair is the first installment of Strange Happenings.

A mysterious warlock. A ruthless band of wyvern poachers. A marriage neither of them wants.

Tsar Kirill’s only daughter is ailing. Poachers and robbers plague his kingdom. He doesn’t want a wife. Especially not that one.

Tsarevna Yuliana has a home already. She doesn’t want to leave everything she’s known, the seaside that she grew up by, to start a new life in a strange land. Especially not with him.

But Tsar Fyodor, his ally and her father, has other plans. He wants to forge an empire. And empire building by marriage is so much less taxing than empire building by war.

Or so he thinks.

First at odds, Yuliana and Kirill unite to outwit Fyodor and save themselves from his machinations. But as a mysterious sorcerer and a dangerous band of wyvern poachers threaten the future of both kingdoms, the two must risk everything – including their hearts – to save the hard-won peace.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

When mages hijack the Mississippi River, it’s up to Mary to get it back.

Mary was a mundane middle-aged woman adjusting to her role as an empty-nester when she drank from a magical chalice and became fae. A few months later, she’s still adapting to her new life when the Mississippi River suddenly disappears.

The only river nymph left, Mary sets out to find it. A were-jaguar, frog prince, and multiple fae lords entangle themselves in her quest, turning what should have been an exciting adventure across the American Midwest into a treacherous journey fraught with ancient magick, twisted faerie “games,” and even a glimpse into the Hereafter to see what awaits on the Other Side.

Mary is determined to rescue the river, but isn’t sure she’s ruthless enough to become an avenging faerie. Can she save the Mississippi’s soul without sacrificing her own?

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

They came from deep space. They came to destroy us.

Fifty years ago, bloodthirsty aliens devastated the Earth. Most of humanity perished. We fell into darkness.

But now we rise from the ashes. Now we fight back.

Marco Emery was born into the war. After his mother is killed, he joins the Human Defense Force, Earth’s ragtag army. Emery must survive basic training, become a soldier, and finally face the aliens in battle.

Against the alien onslaught, Earth stands alone. But we will fight. We will rise. We will win!

Category: Science Fiction – Military

Earth burns.

We call them the scum. They came from deep space. Creatures of claws and endless malice, they ravage the world.

As the war flares, as cities crumble, Private Marco Emery and his platoon blast into space. They won one battle on Earth. Their next battle must be fought in the darkness.

The scum will not rest until the last human is dead. Marco and his friends must defeat them. They must win. Or Earth will fall.

I didn’t even know I had magic, never mind being a gatekeeper between worlds. That sure explains a few things. Now, there’s just the little problem of being hunted by demons. Readers are calling The Shadow Order: Crossroads Witch Book 1, “Amazing!” with “Strong female leads” and “Full of excitement and suspense!”

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Born and raised on a slavers ship, Amalia is a rare survivors of the Veredian race and possesses a unique psi ability which makes her the prized pet of her master Gruuk. She escapes to Xelix Prime, a warrior planet where slavery is prohibited. There, she participates in the Fastening to select one of countless hopeful warriors as her mate and protector. Except, she’s torn between two cousins.

For Khel and Lhor, time is ticking. Like most Xelixian males, they are Tainted. The disease mars their bodies and reduces their lifespan to less than forty years. Only a compatible female can slow or revert it. But the females at the Fastening shun the males with visible symptoms. Until Amalia…

Between Gruuk’s dogged pursuit, deadly rivalries, assassins and corrupted nobles, can the cousins keep Amalia safe or will their respective feelings for her tear them apart?

Category: Science Fiction – Genetic Engineering

Four lost dwarves have ventured out of the Lonely Mountain. To Sarchise and the rest of the Royal Scouts, it’s a bad omen. He stands at the edge of the clearing wondering if he should save them or not. He knows perils of the Westwood but he doesn’t know that an evil is growing more powerful each day, and if left unchecked, will destroy not only the Westwood, but the entire land of Elvenshore. Will he and his new dwarf allies be enough to save the land?

Category: Fantasy – Epic

Kill the Genocide Seeds. Save the universe. Die a thousand times.
After Earth was attacked by the rogue replicating machines known as the Genocide Seeds, I joined the interstellar war on terror. I volunteered to serve for a simple reason: to make the universe safe again.

I left Earth to train as a Pointer, an elite soldier, the tip of the spear. We use advanced combat bodies to track our enemy over lava, hunt them through alien sewers, chase them across airless worlds. There is no corner of the universe they can hide. Our weapons are deadly, we are determined. Even death is only temporary.
We are the best soldiers the universe has ever known.
So why are we losing?

A fast-paced military science fiction novel for fans of ‘Starship Troopers’, ‘The Forever War’, and ‘Old Man’s War’.

‘I could not put this book down’ Zach H, Amazon reader

Category: Science Fiction – Military